I agree a little short but still cool, I still remember as a kid wolverine jumping on the shoulders to slice their necks off, guess the movie won't be going down that route. But if you look at the Trask Website they make reference to there being 9 different models over time, maybe this is just Mark I or Mark II (on one of the legs it says "sent2" whether that means anything remains to be seen

I really like the look of this sentinel. I'd imagine there'll be some form of CGI enhancement, even if it's just a force-field or something. They could go mental and add CGI armour...

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I think the sentinel looks alright, they'll probably be fast and agile given there size in the pic. Looking forward to days, but my main worry is fitting the original franchise with first class. At the start of last stand we saw xavier and magneto still buddies, and charlie was walking. But by the end of first class xavier was in the chair and the 2 had gone their seperate ways, as well as magneto turning up in full costume. Wonder will they try and explain this or just gloss over it and use first class as the point where the charlie and eric split up.

This is one of the bugbears I have with First Class: it simply contradicted what the first three told / showed us - they were too wishy washy as to whether it was a reboot or a prequel (clearly a prequel now). If reboot, knock yourselves out with new stories and characters but don't give direct reference to the other films (Wolverine...), if a prequel you really need to adhere to what was set out in the earlier films at least a bit (Charles and Erik's meeting and strong friendship, Moira not being a pensioner and the above-mentioned prologue both in Last Stand...).

Hopefully the addition of time travel isn't going to lead us to a Star Trek knock-off alternate reality in a half-arsed attempt to explain it.

I really like the look of this sentinel. I'd imagine there'll be some form of CGI enhancement, even if it's just a force-field or something. They could go mental and add CGI armour...

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ORIGINAL: MCorcoran

I think the sentinel looks alright, they'll probably be fast and agile given there size in the pic. Looking forward to days, but my main worry is fitting the original franchise with first class. At the start of last stand we saw xavier and magneto still buddies, and charlie was walking. But by the end of first class xavier was in the chair and the 2 had gone their seperate ways, as well as magneto turning up in full costume. Wonder will they try and explain this or just gloss over it and use first class as the point where the charlie and eric split up.

This is one of the bugbears I have with First Class: it simply contradicted what the first three told / showed us - they were too wishy washy as to whether it was a reboot or a prequel (clearly a prequel now). If reboot, knock yourselves out with new stories and characters but don't give direct reference to the other films (Wolverine...), if a prequel you really need to adhere to what was set out in the earlier films at least a bit (Charles and Erik's meeting and strong friendship, Moira not being a pensioner and the above-mentioned prologue both in Last Stand...).

Hopefully the addition of time travel isn't going to lead us to a Star Trek knock-off alternate reality in a half-arsed attempt to explain it.

That is actually the explanation they're going with; alternate timeline.

Personally I thought First Class was just a bit of a mess. Too cartoony and silly at times, especially the kids naming everyone..oh god that made me cringe. "You're Magneto and you're Professor X!"

I'll be honest I rate Last Stand higher that First Class. Hell I even rate Green Lantern above First Class.

I think people need to get over the few and small continuity errors such as Prof.x walking to fetch jean and magneto helping build cerebro, as let's face it no one knew they were going to make First class trilogy when they made the original plus first class would not have been as good if Eric and Charles stayed friends or if Charles could still walk. Also I point out this is time travel we are dealing with and therefore the events of the past can be changed resulting in xmen one two and three being void as a result of the older xmen interfering in DOFP, let's just wait and see what happens shall we

There's also Charles' story to Logan in X-Men about how he met Erik when he was seventeen...

They may not have known First Class was coming when X-Men was made, but they knew the first three films existed when First Class was made. Not difficult to either write the script to suit, or crucially, not explicitly contradict those films. Or even to just draw a line and reboot that mother. I think it boils down to the short turnaround Fox gave the production though, which doesn't excuse those failings of course.

And I disagree about FC not being as good had Charles and Erik stayed friends, or Charles didn't get crippled...if, as you say, it's a FC trilogy, the arc could / should have built to the shattering of their friendship in the third film. More importantly we could have seen their friendship build because I didn't really get the impression that these two were such close friends by the end of FC so the parting of ways didn't resonate, since the events seem to occur over a matter of weeks. It seemed they just wanted to build to Fassbender in the Magneto costume and Charles in the wheelchair so the audience could nudge each other and go, "Eh? Eh? Look who it is!".

To clarify, I'm not moaning about FC ruining my childhood or anything, merely bemoaning a missed opportunity to build something great rather than good, for the sake of a tighter script.

I'm not one to get hung up on minor plot holes or small continuity gaps as long as i enjoy the film. But i agree with others that first class was a missed opportunity, the chemistry between the 2 leads was good and they should have stayed friends into the next film. If they were going for a reboot why have a Hugh Jackman cameo? They knew what had come before them, and singer was involved so it shouldn't have been too hard to tighten up the script a bit. But with the man who started the super hero movie boom back in charge I'm optimisitc that days could be a cracker.